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Luckiest assassination escapes - including 50 pages of notes that saved president
assassinated while in office.But 13 more commanders-in-chief escaped attempts on their lives thanks to diligent guards, heroic bystanders, misfiring pistols and in some cases, sheer luck.Here we'll look at some of the luckiest and most unlikely of escapes.The first to survive such an attempt was Andrew Jackson in 1835.Richard Lawrence, an out-of-work house painter who believed he was King Richard III, walked into the US Capitol building, brandishing a pistol.The gun misfired, before Lawrence drew a second pistol, which also misfired.According to legend, Jackson then subsequently flew at the man and thrashed him with his cane. Whether or not that's true, Lawrence's assassination attempt was unsuccessful.Lincoln's death is well-known – having been assassinated by Confederate sympathiser John Wilkes Booth in 1865, just five days after the surrender of Robert E.